Fedora Linux 37 is out now with official Raspberry Pi 4 support

My upgrade 2 days ago went well, if that helps any. :-) After the previous Gnome version I thought it couldn't get any more like macOS, but I was wrong and it's now ripping Apple off 99% instead of the 98% from 6 months ago. Not that I'm complaining, I like the barebonesness of both it and macOS.

I'm still not as familiar with Fedora as I am with the apt-based systems I've been using for years, but I'm getting there and the new knowledge and experience can only do me good.


Last edited by damarrin on 15 November 2022 at 5:37 pm UTC

I also wait at least a week or two before upgrading, as good as Fedora is, it has bitten me for being impatient. I'm always excited for a new Gnome release with a new Fedora; they've been on a pretty good streak the past few releases. I still mod it back to vertical desktops as I think the horizontal flow was a terrible change, but overall I don't really feel as good in other desktops.

As a reminder, they removed h264 hardware acceleration from MESA this release, so if you need it from RPMFusion, run:
dnf swap mesa-va-drivers mesa-va-drivers-freeworld

I tried to do the dnf system-upgrade yesterday, though I got stack due to the gpg keys for the postgres 15 repo being absent (somehow). I'll try in a few more days, I think. I hurried a bit since I wanted to get a system-compiled build of Python 3.11

In any case, as far as the 'above the hood' elements are concerned, Fedora 38 will be a more interesting release for Xfce users, since a huge upgrade is in the works for 4.18

Nice! I've been running Fedora 37 Kinoite (KDE Immutable) since it hit beta on my Thinkpad! It's worked perfectly so far!

Awesomeness! 👌

My upgrade 2 days ago went well, if that helps any. :-) After the previous Gnome version I thought it couldn't get any more like macOS, but I was wrong and it's now ripping Apple off 99% instead of the 98% from 6 months ago. Not that I'm complaining, I like the barebonesness of both it and macOS.

I'm still not as familiar with Fedora as I am with the apt-based systems I've been using for years, but I'm getting there and the new knowledge and experience can only do me good.

I actually find gnome much nicer to use than macOS, and there are things that are absolutely missing from macOS (like the ability to close applications from the activities screen.) Though Gnome 43 does have one glaring problem that irritates me to mo end, and that is dragging / dropping from File-roller into Nautilus! I think it is due to File-roller not having been updated to gtk4 yet, but I could be wrong about that.

My upgrade 2 days ago went well, if that helps any. :-) After the previous Gnome version I thought it couldn't get any more like macOS, but I was wrong and it's now ripping Apple off 99% instead of the 98% from 6 months ago. Not that I'm complaining, I like the barebonesness of both it and macOS.

I'm still not as familiar with Fedora as I am with the apt-based systems I've been using for years, but I'm getting there and the new knowledge and experience can only do me good.

It's quite usual to get inspired by stuff of others in the usability field. It's quite ok, so in the end, everyone profits from the advances and users can use familiar usability-patterns across devices/systems.

My upgrade 2 days ago went well, if that helps any. :-) After the previous Gnome version I thought it couldn't get any more like macOS, but I was wrong and it's now ripping Apple off 99% instead of the 98% from 6 months ago. Not that I'm complaining, I like the barebonesness of both it and macOS.

I'm still not as familiar with Fedora as I am with the apt-based systems I've been using for years, but I'm getting there and the new knowledge and experience can only do me good.

I actually find gnome much nicer to use than macOS, and there are things that are absolutely missing from macOS (like the ability to close applications from the activities screen.) Though Gnome 43 does have one glaring problem that irritates me to mo end, and that is dragging / dropping from File-roller into Nautilus! I think it is due to File-roller not having been updated to gtk4 yet, but I could be wrong about that.

I always liked gnome and always hated nautilus. Usually created a Frankenstein and just used Thunar in Gnome.

Cool! The great thing about (gaming on) Fedora is, in my opinion: there's no pressure to upgrade as soon as possible, since the OS is already quite up-to-date. I'm in the middle of moving house so I'll probably wait a month or two before upgrading, I know everything will keep working just fine and I won't really miss out on anything. Looking forward to the new GNOME version, though. Never thought I'd say that, because I used to be a fan of KDE Plasma, but GNOME is just a blessing in its simplicity, stability and increasing consistency. The new Files version and Quick Settings look like further subtle improvements.

Lots more is new like official Raspberry Pi 4 support with working accelerated graphics

Does this include hardware accelerated video playback?
Also for 64 bits?


Last edited by Ivancillo on 16 November 2022 at 1:49 pm UTC

Well, I tried it out, but it runs just as slow and crappy as any other os I've tried on my RPI4. I don't know why people continue insisting that Raspberry hardware is adequate for running a desktop os - it's not.

I've updated this morning, contrary to the update to fc36, this update to fc37 went really smooth.

Been running F37 since beta, it's smooth so far. Had a few hickups during beta, but they got sorted out and I did not have any issues since it got close to release.